YES Network’s Michael Kay Goes to Blows on Twitter with College Student

Yankees announcer Michael Kay got into a war of words on Twitter. The flap took place early Monday when Kay tweeted followers for their choice of lead topic on his ESPN/98.7 FM radio show the next afternoon.

He got into the “virtual” shouting match with 21-year-old Joey Hendler.

“I just happened to be laying in my bed at 1 o’clock in the morning,” Hendler tells FishbowlNY. “…He responded with a quick remark. Then I responded back. [Kay] was delivering heavy blows, and I was firing them back.”

One of the blows that Hendler fired back took their Twitter fight into an online street brawl. Hendler wrote on the social media site: “look at you responding to a random person like that. Just shows your insecurity. Go cry yourself to sleep with your ugly wife.”

Hendler realizes that may have crossed the line, ripping Kay’s famous spouse.

“I shouldn’t have said that comment at the end,” Hendler admits.

That “ugly wife” remark is the one line for which Hendler is willing to offer an apology to Kay, but everything else tweeted he stands behind.

Hendler: “ok let’s see who’s embarrassing themselves. Me a senior in college, or you a broadcaster arguing with a senior in college.”

By all calculations, Kay responded 15 times to Hendler’s taunts. Certainly not a career-high point for the Yankee broadcaster.

“If he called and wanted to apologize to me, I would apologize to him for the wife comment,” Hendler says. “I would tell him, ‘I don’t think you’re a good broadcaster and that would be the end of it.'”

Many on the blogosphere are calling for Kay’s head. Regardless of his feelings for Kay professionally, Hendler is more contrite.

“I think that would be a really severe reaction to this whole thing,” Hendler says.